March 17, 2022
We don’t have a budget, a comptroller, or land in trust. But as usual, we have a problem. Last night the council acting as what’s called an 8A voted to hire Alex Rodriquez (not the baseball player) to help broker the tribe for contracts. The effort began unraveling because all council members were not included in the decision to hire Rodriquez, a close business associate of the new TA, David Greendeer. Now, that in itself is not unusual, professionals bring people on who they have a good working relationship for obvious reasons. Trouble is the mysterious Rodriquez was never vetted nor were any of the usual hiring processes followed. His credentials, whatever they are, were never presented or validated.
Greendeer has done little to manage tribal operations during his 2 months on the job.
So…..the Tribe would pay Mr. Mist $200k to do what the CDC has been working on forever.. They are totally capable of doing 8A. Totally.
Greendeer’s presentation on the project last night was nonsensical and hard to follow. Of course, Mr. Mist talked of the urgency of getting on board and missed opportunities. For you Mr. Mist. For You!
Councilwoman Rita Gonsalves raised a number of red flags. And thankfully her business and administrative experience made her challenge the lack of transparency.
March 14, 2022
The only Council member missing was Rita Pocknett. The rest sat in there with their heads bowed throughout.
Tribal members walked away from the Sunday meeting more confused than when they came in. There were a lot of members at this in-person meeting. More than have attended in a long long time.
So let’s start with our favorite villain. Tah Tah. Tah Tah was supposed to present a draft budget. Course she didn’t present anything. White man presented an audit that we already knew about. It covered our $750 m (and a few million) debt to Genting (via the three Genting subsidiaries) through June 2021. Right. It was not current or relevant to what we needed to know. On to the budget ” draft.” Very convoluted for anyone who knew about budgets let alone those who don’t. So we all know one damned thing. When that $15 million is gone, the Tribe has no cash flow. So when they reviewed the strange categories for payout, a tribal member asked how did they know the Feds would allow them to spend it that way. Tah Tah Deja Vu said, ” Treasury said we could.” Actually, that’s not true. Treasury is the enforcement arm of this process. You know, like when you don’t pay your taxes. Treasury comes for you.
It’s vintage Tah Tah. She don’t know. The statute has specific guidelines for the expenditures. You can look at them online. More proof that she cannot do the most basic aspects of her job. This is why we are taken advantage of on a lot of levels. A lot of levels. Being too embarrassed to admit you’ve been scammed is worse than the scam, know what I mean?
Anyway Tribal members were also having flashbacks of what they thought was a bygone era with the Cromwell regime. The old “stall forever” tactic. Or “run out the clock” during meetings is still being used. Not good. Know what you’re doing then explain it to your people. Honesty is the best policy. Tell them why you’re doing what you’re doing, or don’t do it at all.
March 13, 2022
Tah Tah Deja Vu is supposed to present a draft budget at the Sunday meeting….ahem.That’s after ten months of stalling, lying, going off on staff, colleagues, and producing nothing but pain and embarrassment to the Tribe. So she will probably take 2 hours to review the audit we already know about. And no one will stop her.The federal money is still on lockdown.
So the other problem is that the Sunday meeting is designed to allow Tribal members to raise questions and concerns. And they have a lot of them. LIke why are we hiring people who don’t do anything.
Adding Insult to Injury
Genting paid a visit to the Tribe. Talk about weird. Ya. The overseers checking in after 13 years of abuse!. And they have the nerve to tour the Old Indian Church. It’s like….blasphemous!
Genting was touring its casino properties around the country. So why were they pretending to be interested in us? It was so sad because WE AIN’T GOT A CASINO.
They made sure of it! So instead of putting on a show, (13 years later) why don’t they take all of us (Tribal members) out to that Duplicate Copy Cat Casino in Las Vegas, for a tour of the casino we built?
Little has changed, the lawyers, the PR, the emails you get, and the lobbyists are all controled by Genting. They do what they want to do, and they tell you what they want you to know.
More torture.
March 5, 2022
There was some positive activity generated from the Wednesday meeting. We are moving forward with a badly needed tribal drug rehab/recovery house. The sadness of repeated death caused by drug addiction has risen to crisis proportions.The house should help us help our people.
It’s early but so far Greendeer has been slow on delivering everything but the MIttark back to Paula Peters and a big contract to his friend.
Another positive was the “strategic planning” session with TA David Greendeer set for April 8-9th from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm. Tribal members have complained that the government has no direction or priorities. Hopefully, after 3 months on the job, Greendeer’s plan will be more decernable than the bungled 8A plan involving mystery man Alex Rodriquez.
TAH TAH DEJA VU’S ENCORE PERFORMANCES
Tah Tah promised to deliver the tribal budget 2 weeks ago at the Sunday meeting. Not only did she fail to produce a budget, she didn’t even show up for the meeting. Well, it’s been 9 months coming on her watch and three years under her predecessor “Knees Knocking” Gordon Harris without a tribal budget. Well, Tah Tah was bumping around right after the Sunday meeting trying to conjure up something to justify her big fat check…..so she decided to implement a paperless deposit system. Well, she revives Gordon’s outdated program and then hires some consultants out of New Mexico to train staff on it. The trainers accents were so strong no one could understand what they were saying. Her incompetence is played out every day with stupid stuff like this.
True story.
But not funny at all is Tah Tah’s promise Wednesday to have a “draft budget” in two weeks. A draft budget. So 10 months and $80k later, Tah Tah has no tribal budget and still lying her behind off. She is such a tyrant, the entire Council is numbed into silence by her outrageous rambling and disruptions.
We’re paying for comedy that ain’t funny at all.
February 9, 2022
If you were a stranger, you would have thought it was a promo for an upcoming reality show because there is no explanation for Marie Tah Tah Deja Vu’s eerie presence at the last council meeting. Clearly, under pressure, she decided to appear in person (without the black screen) on the zoom call. Tribal members complain that you can never see her during the meetings…..that she’s hiding. Ok, so it was in-person kinda.
She shared a screen with the chairman. He was leaning to the right of the screen, while she would occasionally lean in from the left to speak. Most of the time she never moved into the frame, but you heard her distinctive voice carping out some ridiculousness from the great beyond like the WIZ. Half of her face would appear then disappear like a vampire. It was extremely funny until you realized how sad it was. The lack of propriety and respect for the process means nothing to her. It wasn’t about the people’s business it was all about babying Tah Tah. And the irony is rich.
Tah Tah is like a child. They can’t give her a laptop because she breaks them. Why would we believe she can present a budget.Jezzzzzus.
Why doesn’t Tah Tah use her own laptop? IT refuses to give her one. She breaks them left and right. When they see her coming their way they turn and take off.
Now I ask you. Is that what you want in your Treasurer? Academy Award-winning performances in madness?
HOW ABOUT A DAMNED B U D G E T ?
So during that last meeting, she promised A BUDGET at the “2ND SUNDAY IN FEBRUARY” that is this coming Sunday. What’s your bet on that happening?
We could lose that $15 million because Tah Tah is tah tah and doesn’t know how to spend it.
Tell you what to do…. every time Tah Tah starts in, especially if you’re an employee, whip out your phone and let it roll. Actually, you all could collaborate put your videos together and make millions…create your own reality show! Tah Tah’s misadventures No editing is necessary.
February 9, 2022
Genting is merciless. They punked us for hundreds of millions to build a billion-dollar Las Vegas casino. Nothing to see here!
Social media is lit up with the machinations of the deadbeat cruise line Crystal Serenity owned by Genting Hong Kong. What was so amazing was the fact that Genting filed bankruptcy to avoid any disruption of cruises, but the feds seized all three ships anyway. Then, the poor employees were told over the intercom that “today is your last day at work.” Pretty tacky and sleazy.
This is the entity that is holding us hostage, continues to charge us interest on $800 million we never used. And they front us off to launder money. It’s so horrible you can’t believe it’s still happening.
The lawsuits will continue and we are dependent upon grants because we cannot get our economic development efforts underway. You know why.
All aboard on the sinking ship.
February 4, 2022
Genting never really had any cool points, so we can only say that they’re operating at a huge deficit. It’s a two-edged sword that cuts deep into the tribal preditor’s reputation. Their treatment of us is clearly one of the biggest scandals ever in Indian Country. But their cheesy side lays bare the deadbeat nature of the gaming moguls who have enslaved us.
DATELINE MIAMI:
According to the Associated Press, Genting Hong Kong is once again in trouble because the government wants to seize a second ship from its Crystal Cruise line. Genting’s fuel bill is still looming. AP says the ships are sitting in the Bahamas after they sent a second set of stuck passengers back to Miami on little skiffs. Course the passengers got a full refund.
A second Genting Hong Kong ship left Miami never to return to avoid a federal court-ordered seizure. Incredible.
WHERE THE HELL IS OUR REFUND for over $800 million in loans that paid for girlfriends, boyfriends, cronies, prep schools, porn videos, hotel rooms limos airfares, consultants, contractors, vendors, and lawyers who never hit a lick for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe? There was a time when one law firm was billing the Tribe $60,000 a month and delivered nothing. No land in trust, nothing. We should have stock in Genting’s Las Vegas casino that looks identical to what we were supposed to have built.
But we don’t.
Maybe we could share in the profits since we helped build it. Now that’s a clever plan!
Next UP ….that elusive BUDGET (now 32 months past due), is it on the way or is it a Tah Tah head fake.
February 2, 2022
So last week the Tribal Council went into executive session to talk about the forensic audit. That had to be interesting. Even though many already knew how bad it was early on, like last summer. They are looking at it again. There’s more bad news, but how much worse can it be?
We are enslaved by debt incurred from the loans from Genting. The forensic audit reveals a process that is pretty bad. So the next question is why are we still dealing with them and trying to get them to reduce the debt on money that was not used to help us in the slightest. Laundering is laundering.
So, why don’t we ask the government for some help.
January 26, 2022
Genting fights to hold on to a damned cruise ship rather than give the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe a break. We’re still talking to these creeps.
Genting Hong Kong’s Crystal cruise line faced an arrest warrant when it tried to dock at the Port of Miami on Thursday. A federal judge delivered the unusual order because Genting Hong Kong owed a $5 million fuel tab. Had it docked, the federal government would have seized the ship as payment. So they filed bankruptcy in Hong Kong instead and put the 300 passangers on skiffs and shuttled them back to Fort Lauderdale in bad weather. This is who we are enslaved by.
Needless to say, Kevin Jones, the Genting overseer of the Tribe will write the press release explaining it all away.
STILL CLAPPIN’ IT TO US!
So is Kevin “O” going to do a press release about the monthly $1 million dollars in
Kevin’s cushy multi million dollar a year job has turned into a career ending nightmare. Where he’s branded the consummate sellout. Surely he’s banked the money.
interest Genting heaps on us? Probably not. Our enslavement debt now exceeds $800 million and is growing monthly. And we are stilll screwing around with these people who won’t pay a lousy fuel bill !
At the same time, you have the abuser communicating on your behalf. Course Genting is probably charging us for that too. We still owe their lawyers $1.2 milion dollars. No one has the slighest idea of what that was for. La Vegas maybe?
Still no land in trust. We will remain a federally recognized tribe, but until we have an Act of Congress to deal with Carcieri we have no future.
There’s a way out according to experts. Meanwhile we keep bumping around, listening to people who have destroyed us.
It’s numbing.
